The concept of living walls – also called vertical gardens – isn’t entirely new, but Michael Coraggio (Cook ’06) and Ryan Burrows (GSNB ’13) have turned it into an innovative business that promotes beauty and sustainability with practical and environmentally sound applications. First “invented” in the 1930s, a living wall turns an impervious vertical surface […]
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Five Cook Alumni Honored for Careers, Service
The George Hammell Cook Distinguished Alumni Awards and the Dennis M. Fenton Distinguished Graduate Alumni Awards for 2014 have been bestowed on five graduates – three with undergraduate degrees and two with doctoral degrees – by the Cook Community Alumni Association. The winners are Gary Brackett (Cook ’03), Hank Ebert (Cook ’79), George Hamilton (GSNB […]
Professor Emeritus Roy H. DeBoer (1933 – 2014)
Professor Emeritus Roy H. DeBoer passed away on March 17, 2014. Roy played a seminal role in the formation of the landscape architecture program at Rutgers and in New Jersey. His teaching career at Rutgers, which started in 1955, spanned more than 50 years. Founder of the Landscape Architecture program, he served as a full […]
